"We may repeat that dose, Jo," observes Allan after watching him with his attentive face.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

He was not a Jute or an Angle, or even a Dravidian, which he might well have been, Best Beloved, but never mind why.
— from Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling

While Miss Abbey partly delivered these directions to Bob—whom she seized by the hair, and whose head she knocked against the wall, as a general injunction to vigilance and presence of mind—and partly hailed the kitchen with them—the company in the public room, jostling one another, rushed out to the causeway, and the outer noise increased.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

Nor may we omit Agrippa's constant doctrine here, that this vast Roman empire was raised and supported by Divine Providence, and that therefore it was in vain for the Jews, or any others, to think of destroying it.
— from The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Flavius Josephus

General peace and order are the attendants of justice or a general abstinence from the possessions of others; but a particular regard to the particular right of one individual citizen may frequently, considered in itself, be productive of pernicious consequences.
— from An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals by David Hume

He will forget anything but some green roof that has flashed past him on the road, or a jackdaw on a cross—that he will remember.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

[4] Two brothers X——, fine young fellows, always hunting and on horseback, are jealous of a foreigner.
— from On Love by Stendhal

FRUIT JUICES Orange and Lemon Juice.
— from Scurvy, Past and Present by Alfred F. Hess

Anecdotes of the army, the bench, and the bar, poured in unceasingly, accompanied by running commentaries of the hearers, who never let slip an opportunity for a jest or a rejoinder.
— from Jack Hinton: The Guardsman by Charles James Lever

And the next morning, although everybody was nearly devoured by curiosity, no one dared to ask questions; so old Mr. King and Polly, with two well-filled portmanteaus, departed for a journey of apparently a few days; and Polly didn't dare to trust herself alone with Jasper, but ran a race with him around all the angles of the old farmhouse, alwa
— from Five Little Peppers Grown Up by Margaret Sidney

My thoughts jostle one another out of all shape, like the women in that last crush after the flag-presentation.
— from Kincaid's Battery by George Washington Cable

I've wisdom from the East and from the West, That's subject to no academic rule; You may find it in the jeering of a jest, Or distil it from the folly of a fool.
— from The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan by Arthur Sullivan

The Parliament finally met, annihilated the Diet, and resolved that the provisional central power of Germany should be vested in a Reichsverweser, or Administrator of the Empire, irresponsible himself, but with a responsible ministry; and—no doubt to the infinite disgust of Frederick-William of Prussia, who was not even named as a candidate—the choice of the Assembly fell upon Archduke John of Austria, who, as we have already seen, had embraced the popular side, and forced on, at Vienna, the deposition of the venerable Metternich.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 64, No. 397, November 1848 by Various

I have never worked, have learned nothing, and I lose a property without which I am nothing, less than nothing: the jest of all who have known me, a scarecrow to the gay birds I have hitherto equalled or excelled, and who now leave the poor plucked crow to his fate.
— from What the Swallow Sang: A Novel by Friedrich Spielhagen

Then the jealousy of Anaïtis, while equally flattering, was equally out of reason.
— from Jurgen: A Comedy of Justice by James Branch Cabell

As their presentation of the case seemed a just one and it was desirable that they should carry home with them a favorable impression of the government’s attitude toward them, a supplementary article was added, increasing the annuity to eight thousand five hundred dollars.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

Made a judge, and the judge of an adored woman, he found in his soul the equity of a judge as well as the inflexibility.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac